Vandersloot passes wife as top Sky scorer in win

CHICAGO -- Kamilla Cardoso scored a career-high 23 points and Courtney Vandersloot acceptable franchise records for points and tract goals arsenic the Chicago Sky bushed the Dallas Wings 97-92 connected Thursday night.

Vandersloot finished with 13 points, 9 assists and 4 steals. She moved past her wife, Allie Quigley, into archetypal successful franchise past with 3,728 points and 1,394 tract goals. Quigley scored 3,273 points and had 1,386 tract goals for the Sky from 2013-22.

"What means the astir is my clip spent here," Vandersloot told reporters, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. "It conscionable speaks to the committedness that I made to the Chicago Sky and their committedness to maine arsenic well. They drafted maine and fto maine develop. We had a batch of pugnacious seasons. It wasn't ever easy."

Vandersloot tied the grounds for tract goals with a 3-pointer midway done the 2nd quarter. The two-time WNBA champion deed a pull-up jumper with 4:34 to spell successful the 3rd to interruption Quigley's scoring mark.

Arike Ogunbowale scored a season-high 37 points for the Wings and deed a 3-pointer that gave Dallas a 92-91 pb with 2:11 remaining. But Ogunbowale went 0 for 3 the remainder of the mode and the Sky closed with a 6-0 run.

Ogunbowale, who entered the crippled averaging a career-low 13.8 points connected 30% shooting, changeable 14 of 25 from the tract and 6 of 12 from 3-point range.

Angel Reese scored wrong to springiness the Sky the pb for bully astatine 93-92 with 1:21 remaining and finished with six points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists.

Dallas (1-5) snapped its season-opening four-game losing streak with a 109-87 triumph implicit Connecticut connected Tuesday.

Chicago (1-4) led by arsenic galore arsenic 13 points arsenic Cardoso scored 14 points connected 5-of-7 shooting and grabbed 3 of Chicago's 11 violative rebounds successful the archetypal fractional earlier going into the intermission with a 49-43 lead.

Information from The Associated Press was utilized successful this report.